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This is a grim epic under way in Denver. Officially, the case is called United States of America v. Timothy James McVeigh, and never has such an appellation been more fitting. The entire country truly seems to be the plaintiff, while the defendant, if the descriptions of him are fair, apparently sees the world as Timothy James McVeigh vs. the United States of America. The nation has mourned for two years. Come the summer, it will discover if it has brought the perpetrator of the horrors of Oklahoma to justice...
...informal that people treat it as they do conversation. "It's a never-never land between talking on the phone and writing," says Argenti. But as informal as it may be, E-mail is writing and constitutes a permanent record, to the eternal delight of any number of plaintiff lawyers and special prosecutors. (Yes, your company reads your E-mail.) In that regard, E-mail is a bit like a conversation at the water cooler that can be instantly forwarded to 500 people. And because so much of human conversation is nonverbal, E-mail messages, especially critical or complex ones...
Mark Halwell, a lawyer for the plaintiff, said the libel led to the collapse of the company...
...have already been distributed, and other documents are likely to leak out. "It's very hard to say 'attorney-client privilege' when half the world will be seeing them," says Henry Miller, a past president of the New York Bar Association. "You are not playing around with some little plaintiff's lawyer who has a three-person practice but with the attorneys general of states...
...suffering tobacco-related illnesses and permits the use of statistics which help finger tobacco as the cause of certain health problems. Tobacco companies say the law, the only one of its kind in the nation, violates the constitutional right of due process by giving the state rights an ordinary plaintiff would not have. Florida Governor Lawton Chiles said the Supreme Court's decision keeps intact a law which will help lead to justice in tobacco related cases. "I think this is the last constitutional hurdle that big tobacco is going to try to put in our way. So I think...